Creating Muppets out of household materials with Jim Henson
Absolutely delightful!
Ok mathematics people, how is it? My favorite line, “Just beat the Euler out of it…”
Source: Workbench Google Workbench is a repository of lesson plans that you can find through search. The search allows you to drill down through grade levels, content, project duration, and learning standards. Lessons can be assigned through Google Classroom or Clever. It’s all free, but they do have some premium features if you want to…
But! A recent NYPL project has paid for the already-digitized registration records to be marked up as XML. (I was not involved, BTW, apart from saying “yes, this would work” four years ago.) Now for anything that’s unambiguously a “book”, we have a parseable record of its pre-1964 interactions with the Copyright Office: the initial registration and any potential renewal….
Source: Louvre site des collections If you are studying art or historical periods, then the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix have a site for you! You can search for specific pieces of art, select art by media type, search for art of specific periods and more. I tried searching for the Mona Lisa but…
6 Truths About Technology in Education I recently had the opportunity to Keynote the University of Pennsylvania Literacy Network’s Winter Symposium. Penn Literacy Network founder Mort Botel (who was also a former President of the International Reading Association) wrote one of the most influential works in my teaching career, “The Plainer Truths of Teaching/Learning/Assessing Across the Curriculum“;…